Baking normals results in blank normal map
I went back through and did everything again except this time I did not apply the multi-resolution modifier as I did before and then baked it without the multi-res option in the bake (having it checked wasn't generating properly) and it worked!
However, perhaps I have a misunderstanding of what this tool does as I'm still confused as to why having applied the modifier prevented it from working? Shouldn't the bake just bake whatever information is present? Or does it only bake based on the difference before what an object is with and without its modifiers?